Research


Scope and Content Note

The information in this series pertains to employment in state agencies and institutions and in New York City and county governments. The records primarily consist of statistical profiles, reports, correspondence, hearing testimony, and completed questionnaires on the composition of the New York's government work force. The records include plans and procedures of state government agencies for implementing comprehensive affirmative action programs. Also included here is the June 1986 report, "Affirmative Action: The Crisis, Review of the Current Status of Affirmative Action Policies in the State of New York" (B3F2) which summarizes the Subcommittee on Affirmative Action's work. The report contains nearly all the important statistics gathered during the investigation and concludes, "there had been good progress in New York at the state government level in terms of women, Blacks, the handicapped, and Vietnam Veterans… but the evidence also clearly demonstrated the complete failure of the past twenty years of affirmative action in terms of Latino New Yorkers" (B2F20).